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They say that good things come in threes. Seems like Apple has really taken that adage to heart with an unusual release of three new phones this season.

We already showed you what's inside the iPhone 8—but what about the 8 Plus? Is wireless charging wrapped in pretty pink glass enough to distinguish the iPhone 8 Plus in the lineup? Or are two large glass panels just tempting fate? We're here at Circuitwise headquarters in Sydney, Australia, to find out. Join us as we tear down the iPhone 8 Plus.

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The battery connector is no match against our trusty spudger. Just like we saw in the iPhone 8, Apple ditched the tricky tri-points we're accustomed to seeing on this bracket and replaced them with Phillips #000 screws.

Also mirroring the iPhone 8, we find four battery tabs, where in prior years there were but two.

Taking a closer look at the battery, we find a 3.82 V, 2691 mAh cell providing 10.28 Wh of power.

The 8 Plus packs less of a punch than its predecessor—the iPhone 7 Plus boasted a 3.82 V, 2900 mAh cell coming in at 11.1 Wh.

It's also a lightweight stacked up against the Galaxy Note8, which sports 12.71 Wh (3300 mAh at 3.85 V) of power.

Lest you worry about the hard hit to the battery spec, Apple promises the battery life will remain a contender with last year's model.

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Just a few turns from our Phillips and tri-point drivers and the display is free ... to hit the bench. For the full scoop on the display, check out our iPhone 8 Teardown.

Our parts testing crew reports that the 8 and 8 Plus use the exact same home button part, which should make that particular replacement part a little easier to source.

We successfully yanked 3 out of 4 adhesive tabs when removing the battery—leaving one stubbornly in place. Looks like Apple's decision to switch to four tabs from two was to avoid a sticky situation on that fancy new wireless charging coil.

Speeding right along, we pull out that factory-calibrated-for-AR dual camera unit.

These 12 MP cameras are solidly fixed together, enabling software used for portrait mode to combine images from both lenses.

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We remove the Lightning port cable and take a quick moment to examine this notable update.

Our suspicions here are the same as they were in the iPhone 8: the new design could be meant to dissipate heat quickly for fast charging, but at the very least it seems color-coded to match the body of the phone and Apple's proprietary mystery glass.

Emphasis was placed not only on the color of the glass, achieved through a seven-layer color process, but on the material itself, reinforced with an “internal, laser welded, steel and copper structure." What this actually is and what it means for performance, rigidity, and Apple's future aims at metallic glass remains to be seen. For now, we know that Apple likes Pantone colors.

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After painstakingly removing the rear panel from the iPhone 8 intact, we decide to go hard on the heat, just in case that's the secret sauce.

Spoiler alert: it isn't. It looks like Apple's adhesive of choice is pretty impervious to heat. If anything, it softens the metal frame a bit, but it doesn't seem to do much to the glue.

This time, we totally broke the panel on purpose, to try out a more realistic situation of removing a broken panel. The verdict: don't drop this phone. Removing a broken panel is much more difficult than getting it out in one piece.

Yep! This wouldn’t happen during the course of a normal repair, but to show the chips you first have to remove the soldered-down EMI caps. You can painstakingly desolder them intact, but for a teardown-on-the-go like this we usually just trim off using faster means.